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Show 'Cookie' Lavagetto Signs With Dodgers NEW YORK, Feb. Iff?) Two player. who may have to bear a lot of the burden of Brooklyn's hope for a better season this year, Harry (Cookie) Lavagetto of Oakland, CaL, and Thomas Calvin Baker of Grand Prairie, Texas, have forwarded for-warded their signed contracts to the Dodgers' office, It waa announced an-nounced today. Lavagetto, obtained from Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh along with Southpaw Pitcher Ralph Blrkofer In a trade for Ed Brandt la expected to fill the second sec-ond baa spot that has been particularly particu-larly annoying to Dodger pilots for the past few year. Baker, a tall, strong, young right hand pitcher, had a great aeason with Brooklyn' Allentown, Pa, farm In 1933 and la figured to be ready for a starting role la another year or two. |